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Image Source: digital image of a drawing by Peder Clason reproduced in Roosval (1917: fig. 99)
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus
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Image Source: digital image of a drawing by Peder Clason reproduced in Roosval (1917: fig. 99)
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design element - patterns - interlace
Scene Description: ball-shaped and covered in an intricate pattern
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Image Source: digital image of a drawing by Peder Clason reproduced in Roosval (1917: fig. 99)
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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Image Source: digital image of a drawing by Peder Clason reproduced in Roosval (1917: fig. 99)
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Image Source: digital image of an entry in Roosval (1917: 71)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 22665UPP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century
Museum: Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm, inv. nr. [Okänt]
Church / Chapel Name: [original church unknown]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Address: [NB: adrees given for the museum] Narvavägen 13-17, 114 84 Stockholm, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 8 519 556 00
Site Location: Uppland, Uppsala län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: [the original church is unknown]
Ecclesiastic Region: [Uppsala stift]
Additional Comments: disused font (in a museum]
Font Notes:
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Listed and illustrated in Roosval (1917) as a baptismal font of pink limestone or marble ["rosafärgad kalksten (marmor)"] dated in the 1500s and located at the SHM; of unknown provenance. The font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a narrow fringe of acanthus vine all around; the stem consists of an inverted cone over a ball covered in intricate interlace, and a round lower base with splaying moulded sides.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone [cf. FontNotes]
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 9 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 57 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm*
Basin Depth: 28 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 96 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Roosval (1917: 71)